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Figure 27 I/O Response time with scaling FS7500 and PS Series arrays
Figure 28 IOPS with scaling FS7500 and PS Series arrays
Doubling both the number of arrays and the number of FS7500 NAS appliances yielded approximately
three times the amount of I/O scaling for our workload. This is primarily due to the additional
processing resources from both the additional NAS controllers and additional PS Series array resources
for hosting NAS reserve disk volumes.
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